Our board is composed of community leaders, professionals, and advocates who volunteer their time and talents to support our mission.
Board President
Patti Robinson is an experienced mediator from Utica, NY. She has worked as a mediator for the NYS Unified court system, Child Court Improvement Project, The Peacemaker Program Inc., and she serves on the board of Mediation Services of Adams County. Patti is NYS certified in many types of mediation including divorce, child permanency, police/citizen, small claims, and landlord/tenant. Since joining the board of MSAC she has played a part in branding, website development, printed materials, creating a database, the Trust Network, and other areas.
Board Vice President
Larry has been practicing law in Hanover since he passed the Bar in 1975. His diverse practice included family law, business law, estate planning and administration, bankruptcy and debt restructuring, and real estate law. In recent years, he has focused his practice primarily on bankruptcy and debt restructuring, while maintaining his business and estate planning clients.
In his bankruptcy practice, Larry has represented thousands of individuals and businesses experiencing a financial crisis. He credits his success in this area to his reputation for really listening to his clients and analyzing each person's specific circumstances. Larry has been a member of the York County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Middle District Bankruptcy Bar Association.
In his spare time, Larry enjoys giving back to his community. He is currently serving on the Session of the Gettysburg Presbyterian Church and enjoys assisting in their mission work. He is a Past President of his local Hanover Lions Club. Larry is gifted at working with young people. He was a popular guest lecturer at Harrisburg Community College, strove to change lives as a mentor of troubled teens, and devoted much time to planning lessons when he taught Sunday School.
Larry enjoys traveling, reading history, gardening, bicycling and exploring out-of-the-way places, especially with his wife and grandchildren.
Board Treasurer
Jori Egan is new to southwest Pennsylvania. She has worked for 20+ years in different industries, healthcare, human resources, call centers, staffing, technology, and a PEO. She relocated from Florida in 2019, just before covid with her two rescue dogs, Diesel and Tilly to be closer to family. Human resources positions are a balancing act between employees and company management. This is very similar to mediation because two differing viewpoints both having a need to come to a win-win situation. When I was told about the Mediation Services of Adam County Inc. I volunteered to help in any way possible.
Board Secretary
Mary Kay Turner graduated from Manchester College (now University) in North Manchester, Indiana. She taught fifth grade one year in Cleveland, Ohio.
She joined Brethren Volunteer Service and worked five years at Tri-Community Day Care Center on the west side of Chicago. She married Roger Turner; they moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in1976 and raised a daughter and a son there. She earned an M. ED. in Counseling at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel). She was a substitute teacher for about 30 years.
Mary Kay served on the board of Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice in the 1980s and directed Peace Camp beginning in 1988 for 5 years. She met with the committee that formed Mediation Services of Adams County in 1995 and has served on the board since then, many years as secretary. She continues to serve as the secretary and is also the Intake Coordinator.
Board Member
Jan's career, spanning many decades has included Professor Emerita at Gettysburg College. She taught for 49 years in the fields of South Asian literature and civilization, women, and peace studies. She has published articles in many periodicals, poetry in many small journals, including Earth's Daughters, The Memory Box and The Little Red Tree Anthology. She also was the author of the novel "Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace."
Additionally, for three years, Jan taught English to local teachers in Kanpetlet, Myanmar. Jan writes about many topics including comparative religion, Abrahamic religions, other religions, atheism and humanism, mythology, and folklore. Jan is also an award-winning photographer, using her many travels as her subject.
Jan was part of an Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice committee that formed MSAC in 1995. Many people didn't think mediation would take off in Adams County, but Jan had a vision for how the community could better work together and she stuck with it over the last 25 years.
To spread the word about mediation, Jan initiated meetings with people in the court system, PA State Police and county law enforcement groups, Gettysburg Police Department, Adams County District Judges, and other groups. She created and presented trainings, wrote articles, attended hundreds of meetings, applied for grants, stayed up on technology, and tried to improve the board and MSAC in every way possible. MSAC is indebted to her. A kinder, better communicating community is indebted to her.
Board Member
Hannah Barber is a Licensed Certified Social Worker–Clinical (LCSW-C) with over a decade of experience serving vulnerable populations, primarily in the fields of child welfare and substance use disorders. She currently works as a foster care social worker in Frederick, Maryland. When she's not working, she enjoys reading and spending time with her son, Miles, and her three dogs, Parker, Shuri, and Dany. A proud resident of Gettysburg for more than ten years, Hannah is passionate about fostering a kind and welcoming community and is excited to have the opportunity to do that with Mediation Services of Adams County Inc.
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